Jacin tells Winter that Princess Selene is alive, and that she is Cinder.

After escaping, she goes to see Jacin, who has been tied up and lashed due to his betrayal (which he managed to avoid the death penalty for due to him bending the truth - a lot). In Winter, she escapes from the palace by pretending to be even more insane than she already is, sending her guards on a wild goose chase. She pretends to play pretend with Scarlet, for the benefit of anyone watching, to provide cover so that she can give Scarlet some sour apple petites laced with painkillers. Don't you think?' Winter also told her that one of her only human friends 'turned into a pile of ashes' Cinder and that the other disappeared Jacin. but if the blood was real, the servants would clean it up. the palace walls have been bleeding for years. When visiting Scarlet in her cage in the end of Cress, Winter tells her that 'I know. After that, Winter swore to never use her gift again. Later, after the servant succeed, Winter learned that Thaumaturge Aimery Park had been torturing her, and that by trying to help, Winter had only made it worse. She refuses to use her Lunar gift because she used her gift to stop a servant attempting suicide. She told Scarlet that she had no friends (besides animals) except for Jacin Clay, a Lunar guard, her friend since childhood, and Cinder, whom she knew as Princess Selene, who she presumed dead. Her father was murdered by Head Thaumaturge Joshua Haddon, under Levana's orders. Therefore, Winter became the stepdaughter of Levana and thus a princess of Luna.

Her father was forced to marry Princess Levana when Winter was only a few months old.

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